PART 17: Antichrists revealed – Delibrate rebellion of the antichrist towards Christ

The crowd is expected to surpass the 300,000 that attended Pope John Paul II’s beatification of Mother Teresa in Rome in 2003.

“Brothers and sisters, even in our days God inspires new models of sainthood,” John Paul told the crowd at the time.

Speeding up sainthood

Most of the Catholic Church’s saints or blessed people are honoured decades, if not centuries, after their deaths. Traditionally, there is a mandatory five-year waiting period before formal evaluation of a candidate for beatification can begin.

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Mother Teresa’s devotees began pressing the Vatican soon after her death to speed up the nun’s sainthood cause, saying her holiness was clear to many around the world. Pope John Paul II granted the special dispensation in 1999, and the procedure began.

The pope waived the waiting period in part, some believe, because of her fame and reputation.

John Paul II further paved the way for her beatification in 2002, when he approved a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa after her death.

The approved miracle involved Monica Besra, a 30-year-old Kolkata woman who said praying to the nun cured a stomach tumour. The Vatican committee said in October 2002 that it could find no “scientific explanation” for the woman’s recovery.

“I took doctors’ medicines, threw up and was in a lot of pain. But when I prayed to Mother Teresa from my heart, Mother Teresa blessed me and now I am healthy,” Besra told CNN last week.

“My entire village and I am very happy that she is being made a saint.”

Pope Francis formally announced that Mother Teresa would be declared a saint in March 2016, when he recognised a second miracle attributed to her.

A Brazilian man with multiple brain tumours was healed after loved ones prayed to Mother Teresa to heal him, according to Avenger, a newspaper affiliated to the Catholic Church.

‘Saint of the gutters’

However, Mother Teresa’s legacy has been criticised. Her critics say her charity isn’t financially accountable and volunteers aren’t properly trained. And some doctors claim Besra was healed by modern medicine, not by prayer. (to Mother Theresa)